'But instead they’ve seen this ferocious reaction from the rest of the news media and on social media,' he added. 'There was an early assessment that this incident wouldn’t amount to much, that no one would care about what happened here, that it would just be seen as a Fox News thing or James Rosen trying to inflate his own reputation,' Rosen said. The Fox News reporter contended that the Obama administration misjudged interest in the edited video. So I think that there have been some demands for more evidence in this whole set of incidents, and I think we haven’t heard the last of it.'

'There’s a number of outstanding demands from congressional committee chairmen for documents, for testimony, for evidence relating to this incident.

'It’s a significant moment because it’s not often in the annals of a modern presidency where an administration is forced to admit publicly that it has sought to censor the record of its public briefings,' Rosen said. But he also noted that he had faith in independent media investigations and an informal House Oversight Committee inquiry into the incident. Rosen told Business Insider in a phone interview earlier on Wednesday that he hoped the department would investigate further. Rosen's revelation is part of the continued fallout from a controversial profile of President Barack Obama's deputy national-security adviser, Ben Rhodes, who told the New York Times magazine that he had misled reporters to about the timeline of the Iran deal in order to create a favorable narrative.

Though the department previously maintained that the editing was a 'glitch,' earlier this month, State Department spokesman Admiral John Kirby revealed that an employee deliberately edited out the exchange, but asserted that the agency would not investigate the incident further.

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